The child at your door 400000 orphans starving no state aid available--Campaign for $30000000. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures The child at your door 400000 orphans starving no state aid available--Campaign for $30000000. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The lettering on this piece makes its purpose clear: an appeal on behalf of 400,000 orphans said to be starving, framed as a child standing at the viewer's own door. Relief campaigns of this kind were common in the years after World War I, when groups such as Near East Relief raised money in the United States for children displaced by war and famine in the Near East. The record does not name the artist or printer, so the piece is best read as postwar fundraising material, designed to make a distant crisis feel immediate and personal.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 52 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | American Committee Relief in the Near East. Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia. 1 Madison Ave. New York Cleveland H. Dodge Treas. Signed with unidentified monogram (D. or H. P. ?). Committee on Public Information Division of Pictorial Publicity. · Canada Food Board funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Near East Relief (Organization) World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War 1914-1918--Children. Orphans--1910-1920. War relief--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,988 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1288_The_child_at_your_door_1917 |
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